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Orbs and foo fighters

Airmen on both sides of World War II reported glowing balls that flew alongside their planes and then vanished – the Americans called them “foo fighters”. Similar red, orange or white orbs are described by witnesses all over the world. Some sightings are sky lanterns, flares, satellites or planets, but not every pilot report could be explained this way.

cases
12
years
1944–2012

Unexplained: 2 Disputed: 7 Explained: 2 Hoax: 1

  1. 1940–1949

    1. 1944 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed Foo Fighters over the Rhine Valley Rhine Valley north of Strasbourg, Alsace, France In the fall of 1944, American night fighter crews over the Rhine reported glowing balls that flew alongside their aircraft and suddenly vanished.

  2. 1950–1959

    1. 1951 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed Lubbock Lights Lubbock, Texas, United States Professors at a Lubbock college saw an arc of pale lights pass over the city, and a student photographed a V-shaped formation.
    2. 1952 Orbs and foo fighters · Unexplained Orange Ball Pacing B-29 Bombers over Korea Skies over Wonsan, Kangwon Province, North Korea During the Korean War, the crews of two American B-29 bombers saw an orange ball that accompanied their aircraft for several minutes.
    3. 1958 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed Muszyna: The First Polish UFO Photograph Muszyna, Sądecki Beskids, Lesser Poland, Poland In December 1958, Dr. Stanisław Kowalczewski photographed a strange glow in the sky over Muszyna – the first known UFO photograph taken in Poland.

  3. 1960–1969

    1. 1965 Orbs and foo fighters · Unexplained Exeter Incident Kensington near Exeter, New Hampshire, United States A teenager and two police officers saw a silent object with pulsating red lights hovering over trees in the fields near Exeter.
    2. 1966 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed Portage County UFO Chase Portage County, Ohio, to Conway, Pennsylvania, United States Two sheriff’s deputies chased a glowing object in their patrol car for more than 100 kilometers, crossing the Pennsylvania state line.
    3. 1969 Orbs and foo fighters · Explained Jimmy Carter UFO Sighting Leary, Georgia, United States Before a Lions Club meeting, future president Jimmy Carter saw a bright, color-changing light – and years later filed an official report.

  4. 1970–1979

    1. 1976 Orbs and foo fighters · Explained 1976 Canary Islands Sighting Gran Canaria and surrounding waters, Canary Islands, Spain In June 1976, Canary Islands residents and the crew of a Spanish corvette saw a luminous sphere and a ring of light expanding across the sky.

  5. 1990–1999

    1. 1991 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed 1991 Solar Eclipse UFO over Mexico City Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico During a total solar eclipse, residents of Mexico City captured on video a shining object beneath the darkened disk of the Sun.

  6. 2000–2009

    1. 2009 Orbs and foo fighters · Hoax Morristown UFO Hoax Morristown, New Jersey, United States Five red lights over Morristown turned out to be flares tied to balloons – a prank by two men testing the gullibility of the media.

  7. 2010–2019

    1. 2010 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed 2010 Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport UFO Incident Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang Province, China In July 2010, one of eastern China’s largest airports halted traffic for about an hour because of an unidentified light in the sky.
    2. 2012 Orbs and foo fighters · Disputed Glowing Orbs over Pangong Lake in Ladakh Thakung post on Pangong Lake, Ladakh, India In 2012, Indian soldiers in Ladakh reported more than a hundred sightings of yellowish orbs rising above the horizon on the Chinese side.